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  Kenya Courts Foreign Constructors

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 11:03am EST

  Kenya, east Africa’s largest economy, has begun the $960-million process of constructing and upgrading two key roads in the capital of Nairobi through public/private partnerships as part of the multinational Northern Corridor Transport Improvement Project (NCTIP).
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  Egypt To Seek Contractor for $550-million Museum

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 11:03am EST

  Six years after design began and one year after it was completed, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture is almost ready to start construction of the $550-million main building of the Grand Egyptian Museum, near Cairo.
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  London's Massive Rail Project Gains Favor

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 11:03am EST

  Thanks to bipartisan support, London’s $24-billion government-sponsored Crossrail project seems to have a secure future even as public spending cuts loom.
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  Broadband Bonding Offers High- Speed Alternative

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 11:03am EST

  California Engineering Contractors, Pleasanton, Calif., was not happy with its high-speed Internet options. Even while paying thousands of dollars a month for bonded T1 lines or similar high-end connectivity at its main office, field offices at projects were often stuck with limited broadband.
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  Interior Secretary Will Resolve Impasse by April Over Huge Massachusetts Offshore Wind Project

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 11:03am EST

  Developers of a major offshore wind farm in Massachusetts Bay failed to reach agreement by March 1 with local Native American tribes who say the $1-billion Cape Wind project would destroy ancestral burial sites.
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  Chile's Quake Damage Mitigated by Past Lessons

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Temblors in 1960 and 1985 triggered an overhaul of building codes and construction practices, improving structural performace in Chile’s recent seismic events.
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  Chile Holds Strong Recovery Hopes

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Hours after Chile was hammered on Feb. 27 by one of the most powerful earthquakes in its history, President Michelle Bachelet made it clear the country already is preparing for recovery.
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  Southern California Utility Joins ‘Smart’ Meter Movement

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  In mid-February, Glendale Water & Power awarded a $4.2-million contract to Greenville, S.C.-based Utility Partners of America Inc., as the Southern California city joined a nationwide move to so-called smart water and electric networks.
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  Brazil Backs $4-Billion Peruvian Hydropower Project

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Brazilian-backed proposal to build a 2,000-megawatt hydroelectric plant in the Peruvian Amazon has gained momentum in recent weeks as the government of the Andean nation has thrown its weight behind the effort.
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  Firms See South Africa Prospects Differently

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Two construction companies, a designer and a contractor with major footholds in South Africa, take somewhat different views of the country’s market prospects in these tougher economic times.
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  New York Concrete Testing Firm Found Guilty of Racketeering

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  After nearly a week of extra-innings deliberation, a New York City jury finally convicted regional concrete testing giant Testwell Laboratories on Feb. 25 of racketeering stemming from allegations it filed fake test results on more than 80 buildings.
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  China-Hong Kong Rail Line Costs Deepen

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Work on the 26-km-long Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) is well under way, with the last contract to be awarded in 2011.
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  Michigan Courts Private Sector for Detroit-Windsor Crossing

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  The Michigan Dept. of Transportation will find out on March 17 how many developers, investors, lenders, design-build contractors and operators are interested in building a new $2.26-billion international bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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  EPA Slams Impact of Troop Transfer to Guam

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  In a strongly worded response that was not a surprise to the U.S. military, a San Francisco-based official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has raised concerns about the potentially major environmental and infrastructure damage from the planned relocation of thousands of Marines and others to the tiny Pacific island of Guam.
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  Study Ponders Missouri River's Fate

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  De-authorizing navigation on the Missouri River would do wonders to ensure a robust water supply for irrigation and recreation in the Midwest—although at a cost to certain interest groups, many of them downstream.
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  Italian Team Repairing Collapsed Head-Race Tunnel at Ethiopian Dam

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Within weeks of Ethiopia’s inauguration of the 420-megawatt Gilgel Gibe II hydro plant by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in January, a 15-meter section of its head-race tunnel collapsed.
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  Brazil Plans High-Speed Rail for Olympics

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  Rio de Janeiro is pushing for high-speed-rail service in time for the 2014 Olympic Games.
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  U.S./European Group Offers Low Bid To Examine Panama Canal Road Crossing

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  A joint U.S.-European group has presented the low bid to analyze the options for a vehicular crossing at the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal, officials said on Monday.
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  Acting Capitol Architect Nominated for Full 10-Year Term

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  President Obama has picked Stephen T. Ayers, acting head of the office of the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) for the past three years, to serve a full 10-year term as the Capitol Architect.
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  Limited Benefits Seen From U.S.-Canada Pact

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  A recent U.S.-Canada trade agreement that attempts to resolve a dispute over the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s “Buy American” provisions will provide some help for water and wastewater companies in both countries, but in many ways it is too little, too late, industry sources say.
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  Ohio River Lock Returns to Service After Emergency Repairs

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  The Louisville, Ky., district of the Army Corps of Engineers allowed resumption of Ohio River traffic through the 1,200-ft Markland Lock chamber on March 1 after an expedited 155-day, $6-million emergency repair operation.
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  EPA Declares New York City’s Polluted Gowanus Canal a Superfund Cleanup Site

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared on March 2 that the Gowanus Canal will be added to the list of federal Superfund cleanup sites.
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  ABC Outlines a Job-Creation Plan

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:55am EST

  The Associated Builders and Contractors, an Arlington, Va., group that represents non-union construction firms, proposed a five-step plan on March 2 to help create new jobs in a sector in which unemployment has reached 24.7%.